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“While the feds ... leave Social Security off their books, the government's obligation to make benefit payments to current and near-term Social Security recipients is certainly no less real than its obligation to pay interest on its Treasury bonds.”

Book Real Government Social Term Interest Pay Liberty Security Benefits Currents Libertarian Obligation Feds Libertarianism Social Security Payment Treasury Treasury Bond

Author:Laurence Kotlikoff

“You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.”

Ifs Inspirational Light Government Causes Liberty Benefits Harm Libertarian Legislation Freedom And Liberty Freedom Liberty Limited Government Limiting Government Rights And Freedoms Limited Freedom

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.”

Ifs States Individual Force Rights Groups Benefits Libertarian Supposed To Be Violation Individual Liberty Initiation

Book:Freedom Under Siege

Source: Freedom Under Siege

“Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.”

Politics Liberty Taxes Benefits Debt Spending Libertarian

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”

Source: The Law

“The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.”

Source: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement